[Avid-L2] Re: Relink AMA

Having not had any AMA stuff yet what actually happens when you go through the link to AMA volumes? Are new bins created for each volume or do the existing bins just relink during the process?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Watson" <rupert@...> wrote:
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> Greg
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> as I understand it the AMA link is created as a function of the UNC path at which the virtual volume is found.
>
> If, for whatever reason, the relationship between the editing computer and the disk on which the virtual volumes is changed, the UNC path will change. In this instance the AMA link will be broken, but as you say the media is found again as soon as you go throught the link to AMA process again on the file menu.
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> Rupert Watson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Greg Huson
> Sent: Fri 2/5/2010 10:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Relink AMA
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> No, not frequent enough to really be a pain. And it's simple enough
> to re-establish the link, unless you have a month's worth of 'virtual
> cards.' That takes a while to re-ama all those, even as fast as that
> process is.
>
> I'm not sure it's a 'bug' yet - possibly just a dark spot in my
> understanding...
>
> gh
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> On Feb 5, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Raj Rodrigues wrote:
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> > Is this frequent enough to be a PITA? What build of sw/hw are you
> > on? Does
> > Avid know? Luckily we haven't seen any of this around here as yet.
> > Good to
> > know though.
> >
> > Raj
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a way to 'relink' to AMA? We've noticed even when on local
> >> storage, sometimes the AMA links get 'lost' and media appears
> >> offline-
> >> once the drives have been moved around, or, sometimes, even just spun
> >> down.
> >>
> >> I poked around google, cow, avid, etc - I don't see a solution to
> >> this
> >> other than doing a new 'link to AMA volume' then deleting the new bin
> >> (since the formerly offline clips suddenly know where there footage
> >> is.)
> >>
> >> Any tips? - relink doesn't seem to work, even if you point directly
> >> to
> >> the folder (as suggested in the workflow pdf.)
> >>
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